Caesar (and Malcolm) decided that the time had come to right the wrongs created by Koba, by returning as a group to the city""s tower through he abandoned tunnels of the BART subway system.When the Chief slowly raises his hand, McMurphy is elated, but the steely-willed Nurse rejects the vote of 10 to 8 from behind the glass panel of the Nurse""s Station, and forbids them to watch television." Elster sets up Scottie by asking him (as the camera zooms back):Do you believe that someone out of the past, someone dead, can enter and take possession of a living being?At first, Scottie is comically skeptical and quickly refuses, although Elster believes that his wife is deeply-disturbed or possessed.As the Nexus approached closer, Soran and Picard fought hand-to-hand - as Soran successfully launched his trilithium missile probe at the Veridian star, and both men were sucked into the ribbon following the blast; Picard found himself enjoying Christmas with his family (and a reunion with his favorite deceased nephew Renee who died in a fire), but then realized that he was in the unreal temporal Nexus ("This can""t be real"), and was told by Guinan, also in the Nexus, that he needed to get help from Captain Kirk, also happily entrenched there reliving his past (after being drawn into the Nexus 78 years earlier); after convincing Kirk to help him stop Soran ("Make a difference again") and save millions of lives, the two Captains materialized back on Veridian IIIjust beforeSoran was to launch his missile and destroy the star.